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OPINIONS Do you remember your life? „ . Slow down and observe A big part of being a college student is the ability to hurry. In these trying days of “got to read chapter 14, got to write a report, got to get to work,” it’s difficult to find time to do anything except study. One solution to this problem is to extend the days to at least 30 hours. Unfortunately, sur viving 24 hours is bad enough. If you’ve taken the time to read this article then ask yourself these questions. are you feeling these days? How are your classes going this term?” 2.1isten to a problem? Be careful on this one. Listening and hearing can be easily con fused. Listening is where you actually sit down with a person and keep your mind on what they’re saying. Hearing, on the other hand, means to sit with a person and worry about how you did on your last test. 3. hug a child, pet an animal, stop to notice the scenery? If you are a parent it is especially important to show some affec tion. A squeeze on the shoulder and a quick “’Bye honey. Mommy’s got to study” just won’t do the trick. Petting an animal can be a relaxing and much needed temporary distrac tion. In case you haven’t notic ed lately, we live in one of the most beautiful states in the U.S. Although looking at flowers and trees won’t do a lot for your grades, it may help save your sanity. 4. tell someone you love him/her? Whether it’s Mom, Dad, spouse or lover, everyone needs to feel wanted. 5. eat a decent meal? One sure sign that you are overdoing by Caree Hussey the fast food run is when you Feature Editor know all the people in Burger King’s drive-thru by their first Are you too busy to: names. l.talk to a friend? Not just Think about the four points say “Hi. How are you? Got to above. If you see yourself in any get to class!” but a serious of them, then maybe it’s time to CONVERSATION, (remember re-evaluate your schedule. that word?). If it’s been a long Remember, no high GPA is time since that event occurred in worth losing friends and family your life, then here is a sample over. to get you started. “Hello! How Column as we see’ em Clackamas Community College . . June 1,1988 Page 3 _ Just another of those days * Today was one of those days that make a person wonder if there are any real rewards to parenting. My daughter dawdl ed over her breakfast, making it too late for her to go to the babysitter’s. So I ended up toting her and her cabbage patch doll all over campus with me. The highlight of her day was being allowed to eat lunch in the school cafeteria. By the time she had made up her mind about what she was going to eat my nerves were frayed. It also didn’t help my state of mind when she only ate two bites of her lunch. When I finally got her home this afternoon, she was a little bear. Tired and exhausted, nothing suited her quite right. I finally sent her outside to play. I had just shut the door behind me when she set up an awful wail. Running outside I discovered she had fallen on the cement stairs and skinned her knee. Back in the house we went to wash the wound and, of course, I had to apply a ban dage to stop the flow of tears. Then she decided she no longer wanted to play outside. At wit’s end, I sent her to her bedroom to rest. She laid there almost an hour and still hadn’t fallen asleep. It seemed to my frayed nerves that she was pur posely trying to stay awake. In all reality it was too hot in our apartment to get even the least bit of sleep. So I let her get up. By now all I had accomplish ed was getting the laundry started and here it was, time to fix dinner. It didn’t look like I was going to get much studying done tonight. After dinner I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk. As she was falling she grabbed the laundry basket to steady herself. Down she went with my clean laundry strung all around her. Fighting back the tears, I picked her up and tried ' to comfort her. I wasn’t angry, just very discouraged. “Mommy,” she cried, “I was just going to show you this pret ty rock.” And she held up a lit tle stone all covered with mud. “It’s okay, Shelly,” I said tiredly. “That is a beautiful rock. Now run and play and do try to be more careful.” “Mommy, I’ll help you pick up the clothes,” she said repentently. And before I could stop her she’d grabbed a pile of fresh linen in her muddy little hands and threw it into the basket. Inwardley praying for strength, I. gathered up my soil ed laundry. Through tear- dimmed eyes, I watched her trip off to play. I stole about twenty minutes to gather myself together before I called her into bed. Now as I sit alone in the silence of my liv ing room, the house seems to be too still; almost lonely in fact. I get up and steal to my daughter’s bedside. Her eyes are by Tammy closed in sleep. As I stoop to kiss her tiny mouth, the soft Swartzendruber smell of Care Bears bubble bath She usually loves to fold the reaches out to embrace me. Sen wash cloths, but not today. She sing my presence, her eyelids suddenly decided she wanted to flutter open sleepily. “I love play outside. Okay, fine! you, Mama,” she says. Then Anything to get her out of my rolling over she drifts back to hair. I was making my way back dreamland. Once again my eyes to my apartment with my basket fill with tears, but this time it’s of folded laundry, when I saw tears of love. It suddenly dawns my daughter running toward on me that this is the reward of me. Just as she got to me, she parenting. decided that she must go outside to play. But, oh my, now she wanted to watch TV. Now she really was being perverse. I think she could tell that Mom my’s resistance to her demands was wearing quite thin. But this was the final straw. She knows !she is not allowed to watch TV unless there’s something very special on. (In the last ten weeks that has amounted to exactly one hour of television.) Now here she was 'demanding to Iwatch TV^ror ho apparent reason .other than to try my pa tience. Having settled the mat ter with a firm “no,” I took her to the laundry room with me to help me fold the clothes. Domestic Issues Heart disease, stroke and related All I ever needed to know My good friend Jack handed me an article he had cut out of the Kansas City Times, written by Robert Fulghum. It occurred to me that it would help get life into a proper perspective by sharing this piece of wisdom with the students of Clackamas Community college. Thé title is, “All I Ever Need ed to know, I Learned in Kindergarten.” “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten.” “Wisdom was not at the top of graduaté school mountain, but there in the sandbox at the nursery.” “These are the things I learn ed... “Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Doift take things that aren’t yours. “Say you’re sorry when you hurt someone. Wash your hands before you eat. “Flush. SN: OL0055 ■ “Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. y “Be aware of wonder, remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. “Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little ® seed in the plastic cup...they all The laugh clinic die. “So do we. “And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. “Think of what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. “Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations by Joe Lee to always put things back where Columnist we found them and clean up our own messes. “And it is still true, no matter “Take a nap every afternoon. how old you are, when you go “When you go out into the out into the world it is best to world, watch for traffic, hold hold hands and stick together.’’ hands and stick together. Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab ■ Heart disease can put vou in a grave situation. disorders pose a very grave threat. In fact, they kill nearly as many Americans as all other causes combined. At the American Heart Association, we have some simple suggestions that could reduce your risk of car diovascular disease. Don’t smoke. Reduce the fat and cholesterol in your diet. And keep high blood pressure under control. To do otherwise could be a very grave mistake. t American Heart Association call our Oregon office at 1-800-452-9445 FOREVER YOUNG Most pf us don't think about dying, It seems like we'lLstay young forever. And some of us do: drinking and driving is the number one killer of people under 25. But if the thought of dying doesn’t stop you from drinking and driving, think about losing your license instead. Because you will. Oregon has tough drinking and driving laws. And they just keep getting tougher. You'll lose your license for at least 90 days, Automatically. Immediately, It will seem like forever. § a* s ®- o If you drink and drive, the least you’ll lose is your license. Guaranteed. °